Evangeline

Evandeline's home by Myles Birket Foster, 1880

Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is a long poem. It was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It was published in 1847. The poem is about a girl named Evangeline. She searches for her lost love Gabriel. Longfellow got the idea for the poem from his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne. He modelled the poem on the Greek and Roman classics. Evangeline is one of Longfellow's most popular works.

Story

Evangeline is a girl of Acadie, a place in Canada. She is engaged to Gabriel. They are separated when the British deport the Acadians from Acadie in the Great Upheaval. She searches for him across America. This takes many years. Sometimes she is close to him without knowing he is near. Finally she settles in Philadelphia. She grows old. She works as a Sister of Mercy among the poor. She tends the dying during an epidemic. She finds Gabriel among the sick. He dies in her arms.

Gallery

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  Longfellow about 1850
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  Statue in St Martinville, Louisiana
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  Evangeline statue in Grand-Pré

Other websites

• Evangeline at Project Gutenberg
• 1850 edition of Evangeline at Google Book Search
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Park Archived 2011-05-01 at the Wayback Machine in Louisiana
• Grand-Pré National Historic Site of Canada
• Audio excerpt read by Layne Longfellow; music by Michael Hoppé Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine